Blinder.



l. M. WALSH.

BLINDER.

APPLICATION FILED own. 1915.

1,28,335 Patented Oct. 22, 1918,

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' sans arena onto JAMES'M. WALSH,

COMPANY, or MILWAUKEE,

Original application filed To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns M. WALSH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBlinders, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadto the accompanying drawing, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to bridle blinders, blinkers or winkers, and itsmain objects are to simplify and improve the construcin leather.

It consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement and combination ofparts as hereinafter particularly described and finally pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawing like characters designate the same parts inboth figures.

Figure 1 is an outside View of a blinder with a portion of a cheek strapconstructed in accordance with the invention, a portion of the leatherbeing broken away to show parts of some of the reinforcing wires in Fig.1.

The blinder (1, consists of a single thickness of leather and ispreferably formed integrally with a cheek strap or band 6 or sectionthereof, a portion of which is shown in Fig. 1.

The blinder is reinforced and stiffened by wires 0, inserted through theedges of the leather between and parallel with its opposite faces. Thewires 0, which are pri marily straight, are inserted through the heldbetween substantially flat or plain faced jaws, which are groovedopposite the intended location of the wires to allow the leather tospread where the wires are inserted therein and to facilitate theirinsertion. the outer ends of the wires being driven leather will closeover and conceal them, as shown by the drawing.

To facilitate the insertion of the reinforcing wires, holes therefor maybe formed Specification of Letters Patent.

tion thereof and to effect a material saving blinder a, and extra wlres0 full; and Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, V

edges of the leather while it is clamped or into the leather far enoughso that the OE MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO VJALSH HARNESSWISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF "WISCONSIN.

BLINDER.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

March 10, 1915, Serial No. 13,307. Divided and this application filedDecember Serial No. 68,517.

with an awl, punch or similar instrument in the leather while it is heldbetween the jaws. When the blinder is formed integrally with a checkstrap as shown, some of the reinforcing wires are inserted through therear edge of the cheek strap and pass therefrom into the blinder.

The cheek strap may be further reinforced and prevented from twistingadjacent to the blinder by short transverse reinforcing wires cl, asshown in Fig. 1.

The main reinforcing wires 0, are preferably disposed radially withrelation to the are preferably employed to produce a more inflexibleconnection between the blinder and cheek strap.

After the reinforcing wires have been thus inserted in the leather, theblinders are pressed between suitable dies into any desired form, such,for example, as the concavo-convex formshown in Fig. 2, and indicated byshading in Fig. 1, the wires being sufficiently annealed to retain theform into which they are bent by this operation.

Various changes in minor details of construction and arrangement ofcomponent parts of the device may be made without departure from theprinciple and scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.

The application is. a division of my application Serial No. 13,307,filed March 10, 1915.

I claim:

1. A curved blinder consisting of a single thickness of leatherreinforced by wires between and parallel with its opposite faces, andtransverse to its margin adjacent to which the wires terminate at oneend, said wires being bent to correspond with the form of the blinder.

2. A blinder consisting of a single thickness of leather,formedintegrally with a cheek strap section and reinforced by wirespassing transversely through the cheek strap section into the blinderbetween and parallel with opposite faces of the leather.

3. A'blinder consisting of a single thickness of leather and formedintegrallywith a cheek strap and reinforced by wires inserted throughthe edges of the leather be- In Witness whereof I hereto affix my sigtween ind parallel With itsfopposililze 306? nature in presence of twoWitnesses.

some 0 the Wires assin rom t e c ee strap into the blincger and thecheek strap JAMEb WALSH being reinforced adjacent to the blinder byWitnesses:

transverse Wires inserted therein between its PAUL E. HERB,

inner and outer faces. A. H. FLATLEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). 0.

